The news of the death of Nikolai Kapustin – on 2 July 2020, at the age of 82 – has sent me scurrying to my…
Steve Elcock has mastered the fast introduction. A device favoured by Berlioz gets a new lease of life: both Elcock’s Third (2005–10) and this new…
One of the proudest, happiest and most surreal moments in my singing career to date has been uttering the final notes of a choral concert…
This conversation, first published in the Journal of the British Music Society (Vol. 9, 1987, pp. 33–44), was recorded at Dr Gál’s Edinburgh home in…
My contact with Philipp Scharwenka’s music came from my in-depth study of the great Portuguese pianist José Vianna da Motta (1868–1948), who, at the age…
Reading Martin Anderson’s ‘modest memories’ of André Previn brought to mind that, during my millennial research on George Antheil (bearing fruit, among other places, in…
A new Toccata Classics release restores to circulation the music of a composer who was both a cutting-edge modernist and an enthusiast for Romantic figures…
After I posted a recipe on one of the social networks, two composer friends suggested, jokingly, that I should come up with a recipe for…
An introduction from Martin Anderson: Toccata Classics has been promoting the music of Estonian composers since its early days, as I personally was, too, as…
It seems that the entire musical world has some memory of the gentle, warm and kindly man – and fabulous musician – who was André…
Toccata Classics was born out of a desire to present the music of unjustly neglected composers, and to give them a chance to present themselves…
The third volume of Ronald Stevenson’s piano music (TOCC 0403, released on 1 February) has been probably the most interesting album of his music I’ve…
Cedric Thorpe Davie was born into a musical family in London in 1913. His father, Thorpe Davie, was a remarkable Scot who had a successful…
In Moscow in early November 2018, a series of events were staged to honour the memory of Alexander Ivashkin – cellist, scholar and champion of…
When Martin Anderson of Toccata Classics first suggested a project of music by the American composer George Antheil, I immediately thought of the typically avant-garde…
At half past four on a Friday morning in May 2018 I set out from my home in south-eastern France to go to England. The…
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